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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
[ Bachelor ]
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
[ Praise ]
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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
[ Wish and Wishing ]
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
[ Modesty ]
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
[ Loneliness ]
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
[ Taste ]
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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
[ Generosity ]
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
[ Grief ]
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
[ Action ]
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
[ Jest ]
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Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
[ Public Office ]
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
[ Marriage ]
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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
[ Absence ]
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
[ Story and Story-Telling ]
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
[ Lovers ]
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The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
[ Charity ]
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
[ Opera ]
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
[ Voice ]
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This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.
[ Solitude ]
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
[ Love ]
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
[ Laughter ]
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